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Ending Slavery: How We Free Today´s Slaves
Kevin Bales
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Description for Ending Slavery: How We Free Today´s Slaves
Paperback. Presents ideas and insights that can lead to slavery's extinction. This book recounts the author's personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery. Num Pages: 274 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
In his 1999 book, "Disposable People", Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In "Ending Slavery", Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery. ... Read more
In his 1999 book, "Disposable People", Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In "Ending Slavery", Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520257962
SKU
V9780520257962
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales is the author of The Slave Next Door and Disposable People, both from UC Press. He is also Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, Washington DC, and Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the WIlberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He is the world's leading expert on contemporary slavery.
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